Sound Soups Soup is a delicate food that, when made correctly, can brighten the bleakest Seattle day. Luckily, Sound Soups knows how to serve it: piping hot, loaded with flavor, and reasonably priced. Lobster bisque (12 ounces for $4) is a little on the spicy side; it’s also brimming with tender pink lobster meat. As about a trillion school cafeterias prove, cheese and broccoli soup (8 ounces for $3.25) is hard to screw up, and Sound Soups does it justice, especially in managing to keep the broccoli fresh and crunchy. Beef stroganoff (8 ounces for $3.75) and sirloin steak chili with beans (12 ounces for $4.50) are also nothing to complain about: The stroganoff smothers good-sized pieces of meat in a thick, creamy sauce, while the chili is blessed with gargantuan hunks of steak that distance it from canned varieties. 999 Third Ave. (Wells Fargo Center), 206-284-1355. DOWNTOWN